How to count characters in text without uploading the draft
A practical character counter flow for SEO titles, descriptions, UI strings and posts with hard limits.
An SEO title with 82 characters can look fine in a spreadsheet and still get cut in search results. A 210-character description can be technically valid and still too long for the snippet you wanted. You do not need an account, a cloud editor or a server-side checker for that.
Open the character counter, paste the draft and watch characters, words, lines, paragraphs and UTF-8 size update immediately. The text stays in the tab. Counting is done in the browser, and there is no network request carrying your draft away.
Where the counter helps
SEO title and description limits are not perfectly fixed, but numbers are still useful as a guardrail. UI copy has a different problem: a translated button label can become 30 percent longer and break the layout. Social posts and CMS fields are stricter; once the platform says 280 characters, it means 280.
UTF-8 size is another practical check. One emoji can take more than one byte, and Cyrillic text is not the same as ASCII. If an API or database field has a byte limit, visual length is not enough.
Why local counting is cleaner
Text drafts look harmless until they include a client name, a contract fragment, a password from logs or copy from an internal interface. A privacy policy can sound nice; the Network tab is easier to verify. txtify does not send the field contents anywhere.
For one short headline this is convenience. For work drafts it is basic hygiene.
Вопросы
Does txtify upload my text?
No. The counter runs in the browser and does not send the typed text to a server.
Are emoji and combined characters counted correctly?
Modern browsers use Intl.Segmenter, so visible characters are counted closer to what a person sees on screen.